Walter...that was a word of wisdom wasn't it. Gee, do you have more? "Life" is in truth, even more than in what we see, as there was some in those words!
I have caught myself telling everyone about Betty Eade's book, "Embraced by the Light." In joking I say it is one of those "required readings" for life. What you said...about how we are consumed most of the time with what our purpose is and how to reach it, was mentioned by this woman who had a very extensive experience in heaven and in the presence of it's hosts including Jesus and God.
She described knowing her purpose while she was there but having the memory of it removed before she returned. It must be part of our growing here to seek it and pursue it, I guess. In regard to your comment that many never find it, I agree; perhaps some are too involved in this life to seek it, maybe some don't give enough attention to that interior voice that tells them, "I have a purpose here; maybe some just don't find the doors that will lead them in that direction; maybe we do end up completing it even if we don't recognize or realize it, though it will be revealed in the next dimension, and maybe some do see or sense it, and like you say, spend life seeking it, some to discover and walk in their purpose with a "knowing" that they are, and some to continue to seek, while some may be fullfilling it as they seek, and some may feel they never really find it, but after all this, I imagine, as this lady saw in a moment when she viewed her family from the spirit world, that God's purposes are ultimately being fullfilled anyhow, as she knew in that moment, that even though she was not present with her family, that....all was well!....that these people who were her family on earth, would go on to fullfill their purposes here, and then when they were done, would return home to the place, so wonderfully described in God's words that say, "Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the minds of men the things that God has prepared..." and a key word is "return".....home.
Your few words Walter, as this lady says ALL words do, had a "rippling" effect, and met me with all these thoughts. And Linda opened the door to the discussion...so see how it is as this lady also said, that all our words and thoughts and all that we do has an effect that reaches out and touches, to far greater lengths that we realize, the world and people around us. One thought or word or action causes another; amazing then to consider the effect we are having on people and the world around us.